Hi, My name is Florence and I am very proud to write about Oprah Winfrey. We know that Oprah Winfrey is an amazing person, but she has done a lot for my home country of Africa. What Oprah and her team have done for my country is amazing.

Associated Press
Oprah Winfrey

She has taken time to help the boys and girls from South Africa have an education. Oprah had a dream to build an educational and recreational center where kids in the inner city could go. In January, 2007, Oprah's Angel Network opened the doors to an innovative new primary school for 1,000 boys and girls in the poverty stricken community of Kwazulu-Natal.

Her Angel Network has completed 60 new schools in 13 countries around the world and more are on the way!

Oprah's work on television was a huge dream. She never set out to create her wonderful life. She says that the path to her success was never about fame or money. She did this to challenge herself on every level.

Oprah and her foundation have been building new schools in Afghanistan and around the world to help kids get an education.

In December of 2005, her Angel Network gave more than $1 million worth of school uniforms to more than 18,000 orphaned and disadvantaged children in seven provinces through out South Africa.

Oprah has inspired me and other children not to give up on their dreams. She has made my home country of Africa a wonderful place to be. Many people have been blessed by what she has done. She has definitely put a smile on my face.

Florence A. Addai, who is from Ghana, is a fifth-grader at Alfred M. Glickman Elementary School in Springfield.